Results 1 to 6 of 6

Thread: Alonso Perez Sentenced to LWOP in 2016 NV Multiple Murders

  1. #1
    Administrator Helen's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2013
    Location
    Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    Posts
    20,875

    Alonso Perez Sentenced to LWOP in 2016 NV Multiple Murders


    Mohammed Robinson


    Alonzo Perez


    Prosecutors plan to seek death penalty against suspect in 3 homicides


    By Wesley Juhl
    The Las Vegas Review-Journal

    Clark County prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty against a suspect in three homicides who escaped from North Las Vegas police custody for several days in September.

    A notice of intent to seek the death penalty against Alonso Perez was filed Friday.

    Perez, 25, is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday on charges related to grand larceny of an automobile, robbery with a deadly weapon, grand larceny, possession of a stolen credit card, conspiracy to commit robbery.

    But that's not the only case he's facing.

    He is also scheduled to appear in court on multiple dates in January for separate cases, including 2 charges of murder with a deadly weapon and 2 charges of attempted murder.

    Perez was first arrested in September in connection with the fatal shooting of Mohammed Robinson, 31, just before midnight Aug. 27. While waiting to be interviewed at the North Las Vegas police detective bureau Sept. 2, Perez managed to escape, snapping his handcuffs in half, standing on a chair, shifting a ceiling tile and hoisting himself up.

    Once in the ceiling, he dropped to the floor in a police hallway, which happened to be empty, then bolted for the door. Outside, about 100 yards away, he happened upon an empty work truck, which was running with the keys in the ignition and the air conditioning blasting to cool the truck down.

    Perez drove away but was recaptured Sept. 6.

    Police have said they also believe that about three hours after Robinson was killed late Aug. 27, Perez was involved in the Aug. 28 fatal shooting of Jeffrey Johnson, 50, according to an arrest report. That shooting occurred on the corner of Imperial Avenue and Lamont Street, near Charleston and Nellis boulevards.

    At least 1 of the casings collected at the scene of Johnson's shooting matched casings found in Robinson's shooting, a police report said. The casings also were linked to the fatal shooting of Candelario Duran, 37, near Covey Lane and Irwin Avenue on Aug. 20 and a separate battery with a deadly weapon case on Aug. 15.

    http://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/h...ct-3-homicides
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

  2. #2
    Senior Member Member
    Join Date
    Jan 2013
    Posts
    239
    If I read the part about his escape in a thriller novel I wouldn't believe it: when they got to the part about the truck already running I'd put down the book and say, "Oh, for crying out loud, that could never happen."

  3. #3
    Senior Member CnCP Legend Mike's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jun 2015
    Location
    Pennsylvania
    Posts
    4,795
    Trial set in 2019 for homicide suspect who escaped in Nevada

    A homicide defendant whose escape from a Nevada police station and recapture several days later drew intense interest is headed to trial in February 2019 on a capital murder charge.

    A Clark County District Court judge on Monday set a trial date more than two years away to allow both sides to prepare for trial for 25-year-old Alonso Perez.

    Perez has been jailed since his recapture in September after breaking handcuffs and escaping during questioning by North Las Vegas police.

    He's being held without bail.

    He faces the death penalty in the August shooting death of 51-year-old Mohammed Robinson at a local fast-food restaurant.

    Perez has pleaded not guilty.

    He's charged separately and has pleaded not guilty in another Las Vegas murder case, and a felony robbery case.

    http://www.lasvegasnow.com/news/tria...vada/644994383
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

  4. #4
    Administrator Heidi's Avatar
    Join Date
    Oct 2010
    Posts
    33,217
    Murder case lawyers want Nevada judge to kill death penalty

    LAS VEGAS (AP) — Lawyers defending a man in a capital murder case are challenging Nevada's death penalty law using an unusual argument.

    They want a judge in Las Vegas to declare capital punishment unconstitutional because they say the two most powerful Democrats in the state Legislature killed discussion about two measures that aimed to repeal it.

    A court filing last week on behalf of Alonso Perez argues that because Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro and Assembly Speaker Jason Frierson are deputy Clark County district attorneys, they made sure the death penalty repeal bills never got a hearing.

    Perez's assigned lawyers allege that amounts to improper interference in the lawmaking process by the two career prosecutors who serve as part-time legislators.

    Cannizzaro and Frierson didn't immediately respond on Monday to messages about the lawsuit.

    https://www.ktnv.com/news/state/murd...-death-penalty
    An uninformed opponent is a dangerous opponent.

    "Y'all be makin shit up" ~ Markeith Loyd

  5. #5
    Administrator Helen's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2013
    Location
    Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    Posts
    20,875
    Defense lawyer loses bid to get judge to kill death penalty

    By Ken Ritter
    Associated Press

    LAS VEGAS (AP) - A state court judge rejected a bid by a defense lawyer on Tuesday to declare Nevada's death penalty unconstitutional because the two most powerful law makers in the legislature are career prosecutors.

    Attorney JoNell Thomas, representing a man facing three capital murders cases, said Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro and Assembly Speaker Jason Frierson - both Democrats and deputy Clark County attorneys - killed debate in the legislature about capital punishment.

    Clark County District Court Judge Douglas Herndon agreed with Thomas that Nevada may be unique among U.S. states to have part-time legislatures led by party leaders whose full-time jobs are to enforce the law.
    Neither the judge nor Thomas said they could find previous instances in other states or court cases on the question.

    Thomas argued the legislative leaders' roles as prosecutors and law enforcers make them different from elected state representatives who are defense attorneys, firefighters or teachers.

    "The people who enforce the law can't make the law," she said.

    Herndon, a former Clark County prosecutor, declined to decide that question.

    He said his role is to administer proceedings to determine if 27-year-old defendant Alonso Perez is guilty — and a jury decision on punishment if he is.

    "This is not really a forum to investigate whether there is legislative bias or why particular representatives may or may not have done something, whether they're prosecutors or anybody else," he said, adding that if there is impropriety in the Legislature, it would be up to elected lawmakers to address it.

    Herndon also denied Thomas' request to order Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson to turn over copies of any emails, memos and telephone records between supervisory prosecutors and prosecutors serving in the Legislature.

    Cannizzaro and Frierson did not immediately respond to messages about the ruling.

    Thomas declined outside court to comment, but said later she'll "likely" appeal Herndon's ruling to the Nevada Supreme Court.

    Wolfson, who was in the courtroom for the hearing, said he thought Herndon reached a "proper conclusion." The district attorney also noted that Perez's attorneys were making similar arguments before other judges handling his other murder cases.

    Perez faces separate murder trials next year in slayings dating to August 2016.

    The court filing on his behalf seeks a finding that the death penalty in Nevada is "invalid because the legislative process ... has been compromised due to prosecutorial interference and dominance in Nevada's Legislature."

    It claims that Wolfson, as Cannizzaro's and Frierson's employer, exerted improper authority over legislative leaders and "indirect authority over his subordinates" to kill debate on the death penalty.

    Nevada has almost 80 inmates on death row. The state has not conducted an execution since 2006.

    Gov. Steve Sisolak, a Democrat, has said he opposes the death penalty except in extreme circumstances. He has declined to comment about Thomas' death penalty challenge.

    https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/cr...l-13868378.php
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

  6. #6
    Administrator Helen's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2013
    Location
    Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    Posts
    20,875
    Las Vegas man ordered to spend rest of his life in jail

    By Katelyn Newberg
    The Las Vegas Review-Journal

    A Las Vegas man who pleaded guilty to killing three people in 2016 was ordered Friday to spend the rest of his life in jail.

    Alonso Perez, 30, was sentenced Friday in five separate cases stemming from a series of crimes, including the three killings, robbery with a deadly weapon, attempted murder with a deadly weapon, battery with a deadly weapon, grand larceny and conspiracy.

    Although prosecutors stopped pursuing the death penalty for Perez in exchange for the guilty pleas he made in August, prosecutor Michael Schwartzer said Perez still represents the “worst of the worst” of criminals.

    “This is an individual that murdered three individuals in a two-week span,” Schwartzer said. “And it wasn’t from a lack of trying.”

    District Judge Tierra Jones sentenced Perez to three back-to-back life terms without the possibility of parole for the killings of 31-year-old Mohammed Robinson, 50-year-old Jeffrey Johnson and 37-year-old Candelario Duran.

    After Perez was arrested in connection with Robinson’s death, he escaped from the North Las Vegas Police Department detective bureau by snapping his handcuffs in half, standing on a chair, shifting a ceiling tile and hoisting himself into a crawlspace.

    He then drove away in a rental truck that had been left outside the building with its engine running, but he was recaptured within days.

    About three hours after Robinson was killed on Aug. 27, 2016, Perez shot Johnson, police have said. Johnson and his wife had driven to a friend’s house on his motorcycle, and when they arrived, they spotted a man in the friend’s yard. Johnson’s wife got off the motorcycle, and when Johnson approached the man he was shot in the head at least twice.

    “There was just no reason to kill him,” Johnson’s wife, Amy Johnson, said Friday in between sobs. “He didn’t say anything to him, he didn’t do anything to him.”

    At least one of the bullet casings collected at the scene of Johnson’s slaying matched casings found in Robinson’s shooting, a police report at the time stated. Shells also were linked to a pair of separate shootings, including the one that left Duran dead, that same month.

    Perez did not make a statement during Friday’s hearing, but Alzora Jackson, one of his defense attorneys, told the judge he had taken responsibility for his crimes.

    “He wanted me to say to the people that he harmed: He has no words,” Jackson said. “This is all that he can do, and he has done that with great humility and great respect.”

    Selene Duran, Candelario Duran’s daughter, told the judge there were no excuses for Perez’s actions.

    “Nothing is going to bring my father back,” she said. “And I don’t forgive. He didn’t have sympathy, I don’t have sympathy either.”

    https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/...-jail-2464529/
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
    - Rowan Atkinson

Thread Information

Users Browsing this Thread

There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •